The Claire Denis Collection - 4-DVD Box Set ( Chocolat / Nenette and Boni / Beau Travail / White Material ) ( Nénette et Boni )

The Claire Denis Collection - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Chocolat / Nenette and Boni / Beau Travail / White Material
Alternate Title: Nénette et Boni
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
British Independent Film Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
European Film Awards
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
391 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1988 - 2009 and produced in:
Cameroon ( Africa, Middle East )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Claire Denis

Written By:
Claire Denis
Jean-Pol Fargeau
Marie N'Diaye

Actors:
Isaach De Bankolé ..... Protée
Giulia Boschi ..... Aimée Dalens
François Cluzet ..... Marc Dalens
Jean-Claude Adelin ..... Luc
Laurent Arnal ..... Machinard
Jean Bediebe ..... Prosper
Jean-Quentin Châtelain ..... Courbassol
Emmanuelle Chaulet ..... Mireille Machinard
Kenneth Cranham ..... Boothby
Jacques Denis ..... Joseph Delpich
Cécile Ducasse ..... France enfant / France, as a girl
Clementine Essono ..... Marie-Jeanne
Didier Flamand ..... Capt. Védrine
Essindi Mindja ..... Blaise
Donatus Ngala
Grégoire Colin ..... Boni
Alice Houri ..... Nénette
Jacques Nolot ..... Monsieur Luminaire
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi ..... La boulangère / Baker's wi
Vincent Gallo ..... Vincenzo Brown
Malek Brahimi ..... Malek, le prof de bo
Gérard Meylan ..... L'oncle / Uncle
Sébastien Pons ..... Un ami de Boni
Mounir Aïssa ..... Un ami de Boni
Christophe Carmona ..... Un ami de Boni
Djellali El'Ouzeri ..... Un ami de Boni
Alex Descas ..... Le gynécologue / Gynaecologist
Jamila Farah ..... La sage femme / Midwife
Agnès Regolo ..... La radiologue
Pépette ..... L'assistante sociale
Denis Lavant ..... Galoup
Michel Subor ..... Commander Bruno Forestier
Grégoire Colin ..... Gilles Sentain
Richard Courcet ..... Legionnaire
Nicolas Duvauchelle ..... Legionnaire
Adiatou Massudi ..... Legionnaire
Mickael Ravovski ..... Legionnaire
Dan Herzberg ..... Legionnaire
Giuseppe Molino ..... Legionnaire
Gianfranco Poddighe ..... Legionnaire
Marc Veh ..... Legionnaire
Thong Duy Nguyen ..... Legionnaire
Jean-Yves Vivet ..... Legionnaire
Bernardo Montet ..... Legionnaire
Dimitri Tsiapkinis ..... Legionnaire
Isabelle Huppert ..... Maria Vial
Christopher Lambert ..... André Vial
Nicolas Duvauchelle ..... Manuel Vial
William Nadylam ..... Chérif, le maire
Michel Subor ..... Henri Vial, le propriétaire
Isaach De Bankolé ..... Le Boxeur
Adèle Ado ..... Lucie, la femme d'André
Ali Barkai ..... Jeep, le chef des enfants rebelles
Jean-Marie Ahanda
Martin Poulibe
Patrice Eya
Serge Mong
Mama Njouam
Thomas Dumerchez
Christine-Ange Tatah

Synopsis:

Chocolat (1988)
A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty - and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.

Nenette and Boni (1996)
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger sister, having run away from boarding school, suddenly turns up. There's a problem that they must confront.

Beau Travail (1999)
This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Africa.

White Material (2009)
Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. A white French family outlawed in its home and attempting to save its coffee plantation connects with a black hero also embroiled in the tumult. All try to survive as their world rapidly crumbles around them.

White Material (2009)
In this drama directed and co-written by Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert plays Maria, a white woman living in an African nation that is desending into chaos. Maria owns a coffee plantation and regards the property as her personal domain; she would rather fight than give up her land. Though her stubborn attitude may be putting those close to her in danger as the country falls into chaos and her very life is under threat. A searing and beautiful story of a land ravaged by chaos and greed.

Beau Travail (1999)
Inspired by Herman Melville's Billy Budd, filmmaker Claire Denis' BEAU TRAVAIL is a stunning combination of literature, music, poetry and dance that explores the near mythical world of the French Foreign Legion. Denis Lavant stars as Galoup, a sergeant-major whose position and power are threatened when the bravery and heroism of new recruit Sentain (Grégoire Colin) attracts the attention of the platoon's commandant (Michael Subor). Enraged, Galoup plots Sentain's downfall, a doomed course of action that leads to his own undoing. Director Denis creates a dark mounting tension which underlies the exquisite cinematography of Agnès Godard, whose stark visual style contrasts vividly with the graceful training rituals of the sculpted young soldiers. A powerful examination of masculinity, BEAU TRAVAIL is mesmeric, sensual and extraordinarily beautiful.

Nenette Et Boni (1996)
Left alone and apart after the death of their mother and the disappearance of their father, 19-year-old Boni and 15-year-old Nénette live solitary lives of confusion, frustration and anguish. Working as a pizza chef, Boni spends his days immersed in vivid sexual fantasies and his nights hanging out with local hoods while Nénette is stuck in a boarding school, seven months pregnant with an unwanted child. When Nénette decides to escape and arrives on Boni's doorstep the pair warily embark on a difficult, unsentimental and totally unpredictable emotional journey... A tender, touching portrait of two damaged lives driven apart by the strains of society, Nénette et Boni is shot through with symbolism, humour and an intimacy of expression that make it one of Claire Denis' most sensitive, humane and accessible films.

Chocolat (1988)
The international breakthrough of acclaimed filmmaker Claire Denis, Chocolat is set in a remote town in Cameroon during the last days of France's African colonies. There lives a sole white family - Marc Dalens, the often-travelling regional administrator; his wife Aimee, who does her best to stave off frustration and boredom with household activities; and their young daughter France, who cultivates a special friendship with the native servant boy Protee. But the family's ordered world is threatened with chaos when a plane full of strangers makes an emergency landing nearby, its arrival unleashing a torrent of simmering resentments, racism and repressed passions.

This collection of films directed by the phenomenally talented Claire Denis serves as a showcase of her decade-spanning, award-winning career, beginning with her international break-
through Chocolat and carrying through to her most recent work White Material. Focussing on the paradoxes of human interaction and the complexity of the individual's relationship with society and the world at large, Denis' work has been hailed for its subtlety, delicacy and power, as well as its stunning technical proficiency. Brave, challenging and frequently controversial, Claire Denis is one of the most important French filmmakers of her generation and is the most critically acclaimed female director working in the world today.
CHOCOLAT
Claire Denis' international breakthrough, this masterful examination of the lure, fear and intangibility of 'the other', revolving around the lives of a white family in the final days of colonial Cameroon, epitomises the director's vision in precise, vivid clarity.
NÉNETTE ET BONI
A tender, touching portrait of two teenage siblings driven apart by the strains of society, Nénette et Boni is shot through with symbolism, humour and an intimacy of expression that make it one of Claire Denis' most sensitive, humane and accessible films.
BEAU TRAVAIL
By turns balletic, horrific, mesmerizing and surreal, Denis' re-telling of the 'Billy Budd' story in the French Foreign Legion combines literature, music, poetry and dance to create a stunningly beautiful, profoundly moving cinematic vision like no other.
WHITE MATERIAL
As breathtaking as any thriller but with all the hallmarks of intelligence you would expect from Denis' finest work, this story of a coffee plantation owner trapped in the midst of a brutal civil war features an extraordinary performance from Isabelle Huppert (Amour, The Piano Teacher).

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 07 October, 2013.

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